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Speaker 1: can go there. My first episode is with Adam Sandler
Speaker 1: and we talk about that scene in Happy Gilmore when
Speaker 1: he got into the fight with Bob Barker and everything
Speaker 1: that went on behind it setting that up. Other actors
Speaker 1: they considered other than Bob Barker, the TV show host,
Speaker 1: but Sandler the first episode and other actors who were
Speaker 1: going to follow Ralphie from a Christmas story. Peter Billingsley
Speaker 1: he's going to join us to talk about nearly getting
Speaker 1: his eyes shot out with his BB gun. Yes, Poe,
Speaker 1: that's a tough kid. He doesn't that he didn't want
Speaker 1: to talk about it. Doesn't do a lot of interviews,
Speaker 1: more of a producer guy. Yes, he is good friends
Speaker 1: with Vince Vaughan. By the way, I sent you guys
Speaker 1: a picture of Vince Vaughan from Swingers, and I knew it.
Speaker 1: Every time I would see Joe Burrow, I go, he
Speaker 1: reminds me of somebody. And then there's the scene in
Speaker 1: the nightclub when they're dancing and Vince Vaughn is there
Speaker 1: in the in the booth and a young Vince Vaughan
Speaker 1: and Joe Burrow. Did you guys see it? Everybody agree?
Speaker 1: Or was that you know, a stretch on my part
Speaker 1: to be faced in the kind of a little sprinkling
Speaker 1: of you know, the hairs up. Yeah, yeah, see, I
Speaker 1: thought you were talking about the other guy in the picture.
Speaker 1: No you didn't, Yeah I did. Oh that's not good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought you were talking about the other guy. It's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that does how to look like him. Oh that's not good.
Speaker 1: It does kind of look like Sue as well. But
Speaker 1: he does look exactly like a young Vince Vaughn and
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. Yes, I think Burrow looks like a nineteen
Speaker 1: eighties bad guy in a teenage movie, like a Bill
Speaker 1: Zabka type. He looks like he'd be obnoxius, but he's not,
Speaker 1: but he comes off like he bullies. Would he be
Speaker 1: in Cobra Kai, Yeah he'd Yeah, anybody watch that on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Seaton's been telling me all about it. How great Cobra
Speaker 1: like is it? It? Does it border on being bad
Speaker 1: but it's great? Seaton? Well, no, it's like, um, I
Speaker 1: would say, it's like three degrees away from being terrible,
Speaker 1: but somehow is amazing. It's like it's full of all
Speaker 1: of this like hoke and like just cheesy stuff. But
Speaker 1: they do it in such a great way that you're
Speaker 1: like you as soon as one ends, You're like, you
Speaker 1: can't wait for to watch another one. I'll rip off
Speaker 1: like five in a row. It's fantastic and original actors
Speaker 1: from Karate Kid. Yeah, yeah, it's so good. It's so good. Yes,
Speaker 1: don't do like I'll watch five minutes of and see
Speaker 1: because you'll emerge like three days later. You can't act
Speaker 1: op binging yeah, I don't. I there's certain ones that
Speaker 1: I have to be in the right mood, the right
Speaker 1: frame of mind to go, Okay, now I'm going to
Speaker 1: watch that. Like there's certain times you go, I don't
Speaker 1: want to watch something that's depressive, like Succession Is. You
Speaker 1: tune in because you're trying to see varying degrees of
Speaker 1: people that you know are despicable, and then you'll go, oh,
Speaker 1: I like him the best because he's not as despicable
Speaker 1: as everybody else. Yellowstone, same way. Everybody's somehow a bad
Speaker 1: person in there. That's like the new wave here, it's
Speaker 1: everybody's bad. But those are very successful shows so far.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's called that scene. Amazon Music the first
Speaker 1: ones with Sandler. Will Ferrell talks about the streaking scene
Speaker 1: in Old School. Brian Cranston talks about in great detail
Speaker 1: the final scene of Breaking Bad. So if you get
Speaker 1: a chance, I'm curious what you think of that. Very
Speaker 1: proud of that, mcleve And the poll question so far,
Speaker 1: the results, well, just to get clicks, we put up
Speaker 1: which Sunday game, I'm sorry, Sunday Monday game. Are you
Speaker 1: most looking forward to watch? Between the Chiefs Raided the
Speaker 1: Monday Night Cowboys Seahawks Sunday afternoon or Packers Saints as
Speaker 1: actually Chiefs Ravens is edging out Cowboys Seahawks. Well, I
Speaker 1: understand that you know that you're watching the two teams
Speaker 1: that will probably competing compete to go to represent the
Speaker 1: AFC in the Super Bowl. I understand that the stakes
Speaker 1: are high, not as high as they'd be if it
Speaker 1: was in the postseason or even at the end of
Speaker 1: the regular season. Seattle and Dallas is really intriguing because
Speaker 1: Dallas coming off that win, Seattle's offense is completely different.
Speaker 1: Their defense isn't that good. Dallas's defense is typically overrated. Again,
Speaker 1: and you could have a big slug fast shootout there.
Speaker 1: But I am fascinated with Aaron Rodgers against Drew Brees
Speaker 1: only because of what Drew Brees did or didn't do
Speaker 1: against the Raiders on Monday Night, And how is he
Speaker 1: going to respond and not have Michael Thomas there again?
Speaker 1: But what if he beats the Packers? What if he
Speaker 1: outduels Aaron Rodgers? Then all of a sudden, what because
Speaker 1: because we got to find a storyline. So if Drew
Speaker 1: Brees has a good game, We're like, no, we can't
Speaker 1: use that tired arm thing anymore. Oh, Rogers not motivated
Speaker 1: any longer with chip on his shoulder after drafting Jordan Love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: point right. In game one and two, the Packers are cruising,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers looks great. Everything's quiet, nothing. No one's talked
Speaker 1: about the Packers. No, you had a situation where Notre
Speaker 1: Dame had some positive tests, so their game against Wake
Speaker 1: Force has been postponed. I did check in with his
Speaker 1: source that said the school had minimal positives the last
Speaker 1: two weeks. But as players play games, then go out,
Speaker 1: and that you have guys being guys. This was bound
Speaker 1: to happen better now than later. According to my source,
Speaker 1: it would have been hard for Notre Dame to have
Speaker 1: practiced this week. The ACC has planned for this with
Speaker 1: two buy weeks, plus the option of December twelfth as
Speaker 1: a catch update if need be. The other conferences do
Speaker 1: not have this luxury. But the ACC did build this in.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the SEC did, but they probably did,
Speaker 1: but maybe that's one week. But the ACC, from what
Speaker 1: I'm told, they built this in because they were expecting
Speaker 1: some of their schools, some of their teams, would not
Speaker 1: be able to play every single week, but the Pac
Speaker 1: twelve if they play, and certainly the Big Ten, they
Speaker 1: have no room for error, no margin for error. They're
Speaker 1: straight through all the way. Yes, Paul. Checking all the
Speaker 1: SEC team schedules, it appears that they all have one
Speaker 1: open week, like Alabama does not play November seventh, so
Speaker 1: that would be a little bit of wiggle room in
Speaker 1: case an SEC team had a situation. I mentioned this
Speaker 1: in the first hour of the NFL is really coming
Speaker 1: down hard on head coaches who aren't following rules and
Speaker 1: wearing face mask and I said this about John Gruden
Speaker 1: after watching him on Monday night. I said, he's going
Speaker 1: to get fined, and he got fined one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: It was National TV. Sean Payton got fined one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. They find five coaches and then teams get
Speaker 1: fined two hundred and fifty thousand dollars as a result,
Speaker 1: because if you've been warned and then you don't adhere
Speaker 1: to what the rules are, then you're going to get
Speaker 1: fined and the team gets fined. So that's three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars that some of those teams and
Speaker 1: coaches got fined. The NFL is concerned about the optics
Speaker 1: here because the coach close up is a staple of
Speaker 1: television broadcast, right for better for worse. Those guys, many
Speaker 1: of which don't care about how they look, are the
Speaker 1: face of the league, and Andy Reid can fog up
Speaker 1: as visor. But the league is coming down so hard
Speaker 1: in this case, and if they want to talk about
Speaker 1: public safety, they feel that non players better have mask. Right.
Speaker 1: That may not be completely fair, but remember it's a
Speaker 1: league that is constantly worried about it's you have players
Speaker 1: on the bench who I'm told there's only two markets,
Speaker 1: two cities I think it's Buffalo and San Francisco where
Speaker 1: the players have to wear a mask. On the sidelines
Speaker 1: have to. But if a coach is outdoors, everybody's already
Speaker 1: been tested, and he is speaking into a headset and
Speaker 1: at sometimes he's got his play call sheet up there.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much interaction he has with players.
Speaker 1: But in comparison to the NBA, Frank Vogel, Mike Malone,
Speaker 1: they don't have a mask on last night. Now they're
Speaker 1: in the bubble. But the players on the bench in
Speaker 1: the bubble, it appears most have a mask on, so
Speaker 1: that I was just trying to figure that out. Like
Speaker 1: the NFL, with players, some do some don't. Coaches everybody
Speaker 1: has to do it. With the NBA, coaches don't do it.
Speaker 1: Some players on the bench. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: mandatory on the bench, but you'll find that a lot
Speaker 1: of those players there's social distance on the bench in
Speaker 1: the NBA. With football football, they're high five and they're
Speaker 1: hugging after a game, and then there's the actual play itself,
Speaker 1: and that's We're going to talk to Mike Florio from
Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk about that. Yeah, point, we sent it
Speaker 1: up to the NBA to ask what their rules were
Speaker 1: in comparison to the NFL's rules. Do you think with
Speaker 1: the NBA they allowed the head coach to have a
Speaker 1: little wiggle room because he needs to communicate, even though
Speaker 1: the stadium is not loud, it's basically quiet. But is
Speaker 1: that maybe just the head coach who's standing up is
Speaker 1: allowed to be massless because he needs to communicate. It
Speaker 1: would be tough without with a mascot. But how's that
Speaker 1: any different than a football game. I'm not sure. And look,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to stir up something. I just want
Speaker 1: to know that if we're going to find these coaches
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars and teams two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: k but the NBA is not doing that. Baseball managers
Speaker 1: you'll see them with mask on in the dugout. So
Speaker 1: just trying to figure out, you know, one is outside
Speaker 1: one is inside the bubble. So we'll talk to Also,
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles gets signed by the Denver Broncos, and I
Speaker 1: just wondered this, and once again, I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: stir anything up other than I just ask a question,
Speaker 1: and I think they're legitimate questions. I don't troll you.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to stir it up. There's no politics
Speaker 1: involved in this. If I'm Denver, why am I not
Speaker 1: bringing in Colin Kaepernick? If I'm bringing in Blake Bortles,
Speaker 1: why don't I at least bring in Kaepernick to see
Speaker 1: if he can play. I'm assuming he's better than Blake Bortles.
Speaker 1: And I know that Drew Locke is supposed to be
Speaker 1: your future. But that was just a question I had
Speaker 1: that if it didn't happen with Blake Bortles, then it's
Speaker 1: never happening. And I said at the time when Kaepernick
Speaker 1: was blackballed from the league, I said, he'll never get
Speaker 1: another chance, and he hasn't. And I just wondered about
Speaker 1: that with the Broncos. Does John Elway, you know, at
Speaker 1: least bring him in and have them compete for that job,
Speaker 1: And wasn't the case. Blake Bortles is your backup quarterback
Speaker 1: in Denver, Age seven seven three d P Show email
Speaker 1: address Dpadanpatrick dot com Twitter handed with DP show. Last hour,
Speaker 1: we found out that Gayl Stairs Hall of Fame running
Speaker 1: back for the Bears, had passed away at the age
Speaker 1: of seventy seven. There's certain athletes that have an impact
Speaker 1: on you when you're growing up. It's because you know
Speaker 1: your life is not complicated. You know, you're collecting trading cards,
Speaker 1: like all you care about is the lineup of your team,
Speaker 1: and you follow them and you're listening on radio and
Speaker 1: you're looking at the box scores like you just you
Speaker 1: can't consume enough. And then I always got the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns games when I was growing up, so I'm very
Speaker 1: fortunate I got to see some of the greatest running
Speaker 1: backs of all time, Jim Brown, Lee Roy Kelly, Ernie
Speaker 1: Green and occasionally you would get that game where we
Speaker 1: got to see the Chicago Bears and I got to
Speaker 1: see Gayl Sairs And this is I'm probably ten years old,
Speaker 1: maybe eleven, and boy, that had an impact on me
Speaker 1: because I didn't know how somebody could run that way.
Speaker 1: He made you miss And growing up watching football prior
Speaker 1: to that, you had guys who tried to run over you,
Speaker 1: like you'll go back to Jim Taylor. Now they were
Speaker 1: running over you. Dave Osborne with the Vikings, Mark Van
Speaker 1: Egan of the Rate. You know, you just had that
Speaker 1: kind of powerful running back, and this was different. Gayl
Speaker 1: Says was different than any other running back I ever
Speaker 1: saw up until that point. And then OJ late sixties
Speaker 1: in the Rose Bowl against Ohio State, That's when I went,
Speaker 1: oh my god, he's sort of doing what Gail Says did,
Speaker 1: but he's bigger, he's faster. But Gayl Sairs was a
Speaker 1: special player, and his career cut short because of a
Speaker 1: knee injury, but did go into the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: passing away at the age of seventy seven. Rick and
Speaker 1: Iowa joins us, Hey, Rick, what do you form a day? All? Right? Dan?
Speaker 1: How are you? I am? I am. You know, it's
Speaker 1: an unfortunate with Gail Sayers passing, But I'm very passionate
Speaker 1: about Gail Sayers and you've you've mentioned a lot of
Speaker 1: things that we're the same demographic age wise that I
Speaker 1: know about. But a couple of things that I think
Speaker 1: are notable is in my mind, Gayale Sayers is the
Speaker 1: Sandy Colfax of the NFL. Uh two greats that careers
Speaker 1: were cut short, that you know, arguably considered two of
Speaker 1: the greatest ever. Yeah. Another thing, another thing, Dan out
Speaker 1: of Omaha, Nebraska. Gail Sayers grew up in the same
Speaker 1: neighborhood with the Gibson Boys, Bob Gibson and Omaha's not
Speaker 1: that vick, but there's two of the greatest players were
Speaker 1: two different sports and the same city that grew up
Speaker 1: in Omaha, Nebraska. That I think is notable. And the
Speaker 1: last thing is, to this day, Gail Sayers still holds
Speaker 1: the state record in the long jump and a half
Speaker 1: and that was a half of a job. As you know,
Speaker 1: Bob Beaman did it down in New Mexico, went like
Speaker 1: almost twenty nine beat or something like that. That elevated area.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Slayers did that in high school, Thank you, Rick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mexico City, not New Mexico for Bob Beaman, but the
Speaker 1: Olympics not in Albuquerque. No, they were none, But that's okay.
Speaker 1: I did not know like that. Bob Gibson and Gale
Speaker 1: Stairs grew up in the Omaha at the same time. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: if you go on YouTube, it's easy to find Gayl
Speaker 1: Says highlights. But it's fascinating to watch them playing football
Speaker 1: in Wrigley Field. There's just people standing against the ivy
Speaker 1: watching There's like a dog and a guy walking around.
Speaker 1: It feels like it's a weird exhibition game. And he
Speaker 1: was playing on such and even when he got injured,
Speaker 1: it wasn't because of the turf. It was just the
Speaker 1: defensive back for the forty nine ers. The way he
Speaker 1: hit him and he caught him right on his knee
Speaker 1: and Sairs came back and I think played one more year,
Speaker 1: but he was he was just ever the same. And
Speaker 1: of course you know the movie Brian's Song about Brian
Speaker 1: Piccolo the fullback or running back with Gayl Stairs, and
Speaker 1: they developed this great friendship. The original Brian Song is
Speaker 1: wonderful with James conn Billy D Williams, but gayl Stairs
Speaker 1: passing away at the age of seventy seven. Jeremy in Texas, Hey, Jeremy,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Hey guys, how's it going good?
Speaker 1: Possible pole question as well here. If the Philadelvie Eagles
Speaker 1: go oh and three against Cincinnati Bengals, who hurts on
Speaker 1: Week four? Well, let me see what happens to Wentz
Speaker 1: in this game. But Jeremy, I do think it's a
Speaker 1: legitimate question. I don't want to put Jalen Hurts in there.
Speaker 1: If if the Chargers are apprehensive about putting Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: in there because he's a rookie, Jalen Hurts without an
Speaker 1: offseason to prepare, and you're gonna put him in there
Speaker 1: because he's let's face it, he still has the same
Speaker 1: offensive line that Carson Wentz is going to have in there.
Speaker 1: It's just Wentz seems a little lost here, like he
Speaker 1: just got to get his compass pointing north here and
Speaker 1: figure out, Okay, let's go back to what you do
Speaker 1: really well, and then that's what they need to re
Speaker 1: emphasize with him, Doug Peterson. But if you lose to
Speaker 1: the Bengals and he doesn't play well, then you might
Speaker 1: sit him down for his own good because his footwork
Speaker 1: is horrible. And you know, when you have anytime, a quarterback,
Speaker 1: a golfer, if you have surgery on your plant leg
Speaker 1: and it affects you, it's either consciously subconsciously, it's it's
Speaker 1: just there. And I think it probably affected Brady after
Speaker 1: he came back when he got injured against Kansas City
Speaker 1: in the opening week years ago. And you just you're planting,
Speaker 1: and so you're always feeling somebody around you, and Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz just doesn't look comfortable there. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys think they're, you know, penetrable, that
Speaker 1: they can run, and they they're young, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden reality hits them. And usually it's a
Speaker 1: defensive lineman called reality or a defensive back and then
Speaker 1: you go, oh my god, I can't keep doing this.
Speaker 1: And it happens every every quarterback you see. Now we
Speaker 1: can look at Kyler Murray, now you can. It happened
Speaker 1: to Cam Newton. You can look at Lamar Jackson, all
Speaker 1: of these guys where you go, hey, it'll eventually catch
Speaker 1: up to you. You can't do this your entire career.
Speaker 1: Steve Young used to run all the time, became one
Speaker 1: of the great pocket passers in NFL history. Michael Vick
Speaker 1: realized you couldn't continue to run. And you know Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: it's just he's taken on those defensive players in the
Speaker 1: game against the Rams, and you're going, why self preservation
Speaker 1: at that position? My god, self preservation. And that's why
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson has never missed a game. Dak Prescott has
Speaker 1: not missed a game. You have to have self preservation.
Speaker 1: And if I read, I might not get that touchdown,
Speaker 1: but I'll live to see another day another play. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen's gonna learn this. Josh Allen will learn this and
Speaker 1: probably has learned or is learning here because he's got
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald coming up this weekend. Yeah, Paul one factor
Speaker 1: with the Eagles and Carson Wentz. In June nineteen, he
Speaker 1: signed a contract that guarantees him one hundred and seven
Speaker 1: million dollars. They are locked into him till twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: That's their earliest out to save the back three years
Speaker 1: of his contra. So they I think, what if they
Speaker 1: play well against the Bengals, are we gonna overreact the
Speaker 1: other way and say Carson Wentz is fixed because then
Speaker 1: they got the forty nine Steelers and Ravens right on that. No,
Speaker 1: if they should beat the Bengals, right, but if they don't,
Speaker 1: then I don't think we're going to overreact to say
Speaker 1: there's a real problem here. But if they do win,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to, oh, Carson Wentz is all fixed.
Speaker 1: Nothing to see. Let's move on, because but you know
Speaker 1: how everyone else will be like, oh, he's fixed, and
Speaker 1: then it's going to be That's why, that's why we
Speaker 1: need to write down what people say, not just on
Speaker 1: this show, but other shows where they go you said
Speaker 1: this in September, now we're in November, and sometimes they're accurate.
Speaker 1: But a lot of times, remember when Leonard Fournette won
Speaker 1: the Heisman in September when he was at LSU. He
Speaker 1: didn't win the Heisman, but we love to hand it out.
Speaker 1: We'd love to go he's the MV Like Russell. I'm
Speaker 1: I picked Russell Wilson to be the MVP this year.
Speaker 1: Now I'm nervous because he's been really good and everybody's saying,
Speaker 1: Russ he's leading candidate for the MVP. We need a
Speaker 1: new story. That's why Kyler Murray may have a better
Speaker 1: chance when it's all said and done. Yeah, McLevin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got to go wire to wire now too good? Yes,
Speaker 1: because we knew Lamar Jackson had a lot of talent,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden he kept piling up
Speaker 1: those numbers, piling up those numbers, and then he stayed consistent,
Speaker 1: and then he won the MVP. I don't at some
Speaker 1: point Patrick Mahomes because becomes an underdog story because he
Speaker 1: will have not won the MVP in a couple of years,
Speaker 1: and we go, man, he hadn't won it. Yeah, mclub.
Speaker 1: Same with Aaron Rodgers. Seems like a bit of an
Speaker 1: underdog this year. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Let me let
Speaker 1: me take a break. We'll talk to Floria here. I
Speaker 1: got a few things talk to Florio about, certainly with
Speaker 1: these coaches getting fined large amounts of money and then
Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium all of a sudden, that playing surface is
Speaker 1: a real issue apparently, So we'll talk Florio about that.
Speaker 1: What do you do with a entire surface? And then
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the Broncos bring in Blake Bortles and
Speaker 1: don't even give Colin Kaepernick a look, which I found surprising,
Speaker 1: but we'll talk Floria about that coming up next twenty
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Speaker 1: been postponed. The Chicago Bulls have hired Billy Donovan. Those
Speaker 1: are your headlines as we bring in Mike Floria, co
Speaker 1: host a Pro Football Live you can see it on Peacock,
Speaker 1: and he joins us on the program. Mike, let me
Speaker 1: start with these coaches who have been fined large dollar
Speaker 1: amounts here and then their teams find as well. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to understand the difference between the NFL and
Speaker 1: the NBA. Whereas NBA players on the bench, they'll be
Speaker 1: wearing a mask, but the coach doesn't have to, But
Speaker 1: then we saw John Gruden and Sean Payton get fined
Speaker 1: this week. They are supposed to wear a mask, but
Speaker 1: the players on the bench, unless it's San Francisco and Buffalo,
Speaker 1: don't have to. So I'm trying to understand this. Why
Speaker 1: is it okay for some coaches in some sports and
Speaker 1: not in others. Well, the NFL made the rule dan
Speaker 1: that the coaches must have their faces covered, noses and
Speaker 1: mouths on the sideline. Now, that rule was conceived at
Speaker 1: a time when the NFL wanted to test everyone just
Speaker 1: three times per week. That has since become daily testing.
Speaker 1: And that's the philosophical question that keeps coming up. If
Speaker 1: everyone's being tested daily, why do the coaches have to
Speaker 1: wear a mask when none of the players are. It's
Speaker 1: a strange juxtaposition that we see during the games. The
Speaker 1: players are running around with no mask, and then the
Speaker 1: coach is supposed to have a mask on, and they
Speaker 1: haven't changed that rule. I don't think they are going
Speaker 1: to change that rule. They expect the coaches to comply.
Speaker 1: And the five most egregious offenders are the ones that
Speaker 1: got hit for one hundred thousand dollars in their teams
Speaker 1: for two hundred and fifty thousand, and they wanted to
Speaker 1: hit them hard enough. So they don't just view it
Speaker 1: as a cost of doing business. So they don't just
Speaker 1: write the check for all fifteen remaining games and say,
Speaker 1: now leave me alone and let me go not wear
Speaker 1: my mask in peace. They want to get their attention,
Speaker 1: and I think they're going to continue to be aggressive
Speaker 1: about it if the coaches don't comply. Explain to me
Speaker 1: about the playing surface that MetLife Stadium with the Jets
Speaker 1: and Giants, and what is the biggest concern, Well, what
Speaker 1: happened during the forty nine Ers Jets game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: A lot of lower leg injuries, some season ending injuries,
Speaker 1: including one suffered by Nick Bose to the forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers defensive end, and I think that really changes that
Speaker 1: team dramatically to not have him. The complaints began to
Speaker 1: come from individual forty nine Ers players saying that there's
Speaker 1: something wrong with the turf, that their foot gets stuck
Speaker 1: in the turf, and I started to poke around the
Speaker 1: Giants and the Steelers had played there six days earlier.
Speaker 1: They had no issues with the turf. I asked someone
Speaker 1: from the Jets. The response was we were too busy
Speaker 1: getting our faces kicked in to notice anything wrong with
Speaker 1: the turf. But the forty nine ers had the issue.
Speaker 1: They had the complaint. The league's position is, these fields
Speaker 1: are certified, they're certified by an independent inspector, they're certified
Speaker 1: by the teams. Well, to me, that's not enough, Dan,
Speaker 1: because we've seen plenty of crappy fields over the years
Speaker 1: that have been certified certified as being suitable for play.
Speaker 1: Remember the FedEx field surface the day they had to
Speaker 1: paint the dirt green for a playoff game, the game
Speaker 1: where Robert Griffin, the thirds ACL finally went so, I
Speaker 1: don't accept that as being despositive. And the NFLPA has
Speaker 1: echoed the forty nine ers concerns that maybe we should
Speaker 1: take a look at this. What's the harm in reconfirming
Speaker 1: that everything is fine with this playing surface and it
Speaker 1: feels like something more than just sour grapes by the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. There are enough guys complaining about it
Speaker 1: to at least raise the question of why not take
Speaker 1: a closer look and make sure there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: this new playing surface? Yeah, but what can you do?
Speaker 1: Can the Niners refuse to play the Giants this weekend.
Speaker 1: That's what makes it so fascinating. Usually what happens is
Speaker 1: the road team, if they have a problem with the field,
Speaker 1: they're not coming back for the rest the year. They
Speaker 1: may I'll be coming back for eight years if it's
Speaker 1: an interconference game. Here they are seven days later, back
Speaker 1: on the same field, and the Giants have come out strong.
Speaker 1: Joe Judge, the head coaches, said, we practice there throughout
Speaker 1: training camp. We have no issues at all with this,
Speaker 1: and I don't think the NFL is going to give
Speaker 1: him any relief. I mean, we've seen in the past
Speaker 1: where where a field has gotten so bad a teams
Speaker 1: had to tear it up and replace it. At New
Speaker 1: England at one point they had to get rid of
Speaker 1: the grass and put down field turf. But I don't
Speaker 1: think that's going to happen. I think the forty niners
Speaker 1: are just going to have to deal with it, and
Speaker 1: I don't think the NFL is going to concede that
Speaker 1: there was an issue with the turf. They say it's
Speaker 1: fine and they're going to go forward, and we'll see
Speaker 1: what the forty nine players have to say after playing
Speaker 1: there again this weekend. The week two over reactions are
Speaker 1: always interesting because Cam Newton now we want to sign
Speaker 1: him up to a long term contract in New England,
Speaker 1: and Drew Brees is ready to join you on Football
Speaker 1: Night in America sooner than we thought all during the season. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: of those two storylines right now. If I said I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk to you in November about Drew Brees
Speaker 1: and his performance and Cam Newton and his performance, how
Speaker 1: different would it be? Will it be in November when
Speaker 1: we when we're talking about these two quarterbacks. I don't
Speaker 1: think it'll well, it should be different because I think
Speaker 1: both guys played consistently with who they are. The question
Speaker 1: is Cam Newton is is he healthy? And that's why
Speaker 1: he was looking for so long for a job. Teams
Speaker 1: weren't sure whether or not he was healthy, and teams
Speaker 1: weren't in a position to find out. The Patriots eventually
Speaker 1: took the leap of faith and decided to roll the dice,
Speaker 1: and they were willing to upend their quarterback depth chart
Speaker 1: for Cam Newton. See that's a problem, even though he's
Speaker 1: better than a lot of quarterbacks. What teams out there
Speaker 1: were willing to upend their depth chart if Cam Newton
Speaker 1: shows up and is instantly better than the person in
Speaker 1: whom they invested a top ten pick or invested thirty
Speaker 1: million per year, whatever the case may be. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you got to split in the locker room
Speaker 1: or you got guys saying, why in the hell is
Speaker 1: Cam Newton not the starter? So that's the situation. You're in.
Speaker 1: The fans up being healthy. You're not even sure he's
Speaker 1: gonna be healthy. So let's see how this plays out.
Speaker 1: He's run the ball a lot. He's been in harm's way.
Speaker 1: We've seen that from him in the past, and what's
Speaker 1: happened in the past, he's been injured. And for Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: what we've seen throughout his career is what he's doing.
Speaker 1: He's running the offense, and he runs the offense very well.
Speaker 1: They didn't have Michael Thomas this week and it showed.
Speaker 1: And until Michael Thomas comes back, I think we withhold
Speaker 1: judgment on whether or not Drew Brees is done. I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out Anthony Lynn, who I do love,
Speaker 1: you know, I watching Hard Knocks. I loved his personality
Speaker 1: and maybe I shouldn't be surprised with his reaction to
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert wait. You know he was asked about, well,
Speaker 1: who's your starter, and he goes, you know, Tyrod Taylor
Speaker 1: is Justin Herbert is a backup here. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: good audition by Justin Herbert, So why are the Chargers
Speaker 1: apprehensive to turn it over to him? Yeah, that really
Speaker 1: raises the bar for the starter if that's what your
Speaker 1: backup does. And I watched that game. Justin Herbert was incredible.
Speaker 1: He's almost like he looked like Philip Rivers, but like
Speaker 1: in one of those video games where if you complete
Speaker 1: ten passes in a row, like your player gets supersized.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a giant. He put Damian Wilson on
Speaker 1: his ass on the sideline. He runs it well. He
Speaker 1: had a fake pitch at one point and he froze
Speaker 1: Frank Clark and ran right by him. The guy can
Speaker 1: do it all. He hustles. There was a player where
Speaker 1: Austin Eckler was running the ball ten yards downfield. Herbert
Speaker 1: took off sprinting just to kind of hang around, like
Speaker 1: crashing the boards like you never know what's going When
Speaker 1: does a quarterback ever do that? This kid gets it,
Speaker 1: and I think that what the Chargers are doing, they're
Speaker 1: playing the one hundred percent card. Chibrod Taylor plays when
Speaker 1: he's one hundred percent, he just won't be one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: And by the time he is one hundred percent, justin
Speaker 1: Herbert will be entrenched as the starter. And he's got Look,
Speaker 1: he's got an easy game coming up this week against
Speaker 1: Carolina and then it's on the road against hashtag Tommy
Speaker 1: and Drew Brees back to back weeks. What a contrast
Speaker 1: that is, this great young quarterback against the two oldest
Speaker 1: guys in the league at quarterback. But I think he's
Speaker 1: going to get some more chances to show what he
Speaker 1: can do. And I was amazed how good he was.
Speaker 1: To get the tap on the shoulder a minute before
Speaker 1: the game and to play like he did was incredible.
Speaker 1: When does Ta make his debut? He should be Why
Speaker 1: isn't he playing now? Right? The hips fine? He was
Speaker 1: completely off the injury report last week. He's not getting
Speaker 1: any treatment on MAIP. We already see Joe Burrow and
Speaker 1: he's passed the eyeball test. He's been great for the Bengals.
Speaker 1: We see Herbert. I mean, history would suggest that two
Speaker 1: is going to be the bust out of the three.
Speaker 1: When have there been three top six quarterbacks and they
Speaker 1: all end up being great. If I'm the Dolphins, I
Speaker 1: want to find out what this guy has. Every game
Speaker 1: that you let the guy play now makes him better
Speaker 1: in the future. Ryan Fitzpatrick isn't going to be the
Speaker 1: quarterback next year two is going to be the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'd want to get him on the field, And at
Speaker 1: some point the owner's got to make that call and say,
Speaker 1: we invested in this guy for the future, Let's get
Speaker 1: him ready for the future by putting him on the
Speaker 1: field in the present. Talking to Mike Florio, co host
Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk Live, you can watch that on Peacock.
Speaker 1: I'm with you on the Broncos situation that you bring
Speaker 1: in Blake Bortles and if they're ever was a situation
Speaker 1: where if Colin Kaepernick was going to get at least
Speaker 1: a look, it would have been then in my opinion,
Speaker 1: And he doesn't even get a look because I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any harm in just saying let's bring him
Speaker 1: both in and let him compete for this backup job,
Speaker 1: unless John Elway says, you know what, if we bring
Speaker 1: him in, are we willing to let him win the job?
Speaker 1: Because you know they Drew Locke is their future. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if they looked at this the way
Speaker 1: the Patriots would have with Cam to a lesser degree.
Speaker 1: If he comes in and he's not your starter and
Speaker 1: then he's your backup quarterback, is that good for business
Speaker 1: here with the development of Jared Stidham, But with Kaepernick
Speaker 1: there's far more to it. Why didn't the Broncos bring
Speaker 1: him in? Well, why doesn't anybody bring him in? Why
Speaker 1: isn't his phone wrong in four years now? And you
Speaker 1: know there's so many narratives out there. He only wants
Speaker 1: to be a starter, He wants twenty million dollars a year.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to be a backup. He doesn't want
Speaker 1: to be on a practice squad. I mean, the Eagles
Speaker 1: are given Josh mccount twelve thousand dollars a week for
Speaker 1: a no show job. Just stay in Texas, keep working out,
Speaker 1: and if we need you, we'll call you. Here's twelve
Speaker 1: grand a week for your trouble. And if any of
Speaker 1: those narratives are true, why won't one of these teams
Speaker 1: call us bluff? Just call him up and say, hey,
Speaker 1: how would you like a no show job with us?
Speaker 1: For twelve grand a week, stay in shape, and if
Speaker 1: we get in a COVID nineteen pinch, we'll have you
Speaker 1: on our roster. Why not do that? I mean, no
Speaker 1: one will call him on these things that people think
Speaker 1: are the impediments to him taking a job in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And with the Broncos as a history there Dan, they
Speaker 1: tried to trade for him in twenty sixteen, he refused
Speaker 1: to reduce his twelve million dollars guaranteed salary, and then
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, once the kneeling started, John Elway was, well,
Speaker 1: he had his chance last year, so we're not interested
Speaker 1: this year. So I'm not surprised the Bronchos have shunned
Speaker 1: this guy. They're one of the original Kaepernick shunners. But
Speaker 1: this bigger picture, you know, there was that period of
Speaker 1: time in June where people were like, damn, this guy
Speaker 1: was right all along with the reasons why he was protesting,
Speaker 1: in the things he was trying to tell us, and
Speaker 1: it felt like there was some momentum and then it
Speaker 1: all just disappeared. And I think this isn't the final
Speaker 1: nail in the coffin. This is the extra nail. This
Speaker 1: is the reminder that no one is going to call
Speaker 1: this guy. And with each passing day, with each passing game,
Speaker 1: it's easier to justify it because you say, Elly hasn't
Speaker 1: played in three and a half years. Yeah, it hasn't
Speaker 1: played in three and a half years because you black
Speaker 1: balled it. Should I buy into the Raiders. Let's see
Speaker 1: what happens this weekend in New England. I think it's
Speaker 1: too early to tell. You never know early in the
Speaker 1: year how good the teams are that you've beaten. They
Speaker 1: they took it too deep into the game with the
Speaker 1: Panthers week one, and if the Saints really are on
Speaker 1: the verge of maybe seeing their their run, and we
Speaker 1: don't know how good the Raiders are, Let's see what
Speaker 1: they can do against Cam Newton. You're a buzzkill, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm a realist, no, but that doesn't help. We're supposed
Speaker 1: to have hot takes. I'm reminded that every day, like
Speaker 1: you've got to have more hot takes. I'm like, ah,
Speaker 1: don't I don't have hot takes. Yeah, you know, hot
Speaker 1: hot takes. Hot takes eventually put you in a spot
Speaker 1: where you know those dreams when you're like walking through
Speaker 1: the grocery store naked. You know that you feel that
Speaker 1: way with your takes. So I've learned the hard way too.
Speaker 1: I've walked through many a grocery store naked figuratively over
Speaker 1: the year. What was your Super Bowl picks? What was it?
Speaker 1: I've already forgotten. I love a good people say, what
Speaker 1: do you root for? A root for a good story.
Speaker 1: And what better story than the Patriots and the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how I feel about the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: after two games, but I think the Patriots are better
Speaker 1: than we expected them to be, and if they keep
Speaker 1: Cam Newton healthy, They're gonna be a factory. Think about
Speaker 1: some of these playoff games we can have if the
Speaker 1: Patriots and the Chiefs cross paths in the postseason, Patriots
Speaker 1: and the raven I mean, if Cam Newton can stay healthy,
Speaker 1: this Patriots team is not a team to overlook. But
Speaker 1: who do you like in the division? In the I
Speaker 1: still like the Patriots, Okay, I think the look the Bills.
Speaker 1: The Bills got to deal with the Patriots twice Week
Speaker 1: eight and Week sixteen, and those will be some great games.
Speaker 1: But but I, you know, I look, they shouldn't have
Speaker 1: been in a position to win that game on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: That's the nation of Bill Belichick and Cam Newton, and frankly,
Speaker 1: they outsmarted themselves down at the goal line. They don't
Speaker 1: call the time out when they should have. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw the clip of Bill Belichick's press
Speaker 1: conference after the game. It was beautiful. And it's a
Speaker 1: new way to avoid a question. If someone asks you
Speaker 1: a question you don't want to answer, you just sit
Speaker 1: there and say nothing, and after about thirty seconds they'll
Speaker 1: move on to the next question. It's perfect. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to try it out somewhere. But yeah, they should
Speaker 1: have called time out. They maybe should have passed the
Speaker 1: ball at the goal line. Give Cam Newton multiple options,
Speaker 1: don't just give him one option in that position. But
Speaker 1: they could have won that game in Seattle. So I
Speaker 1: think they're going to be really good this year, and
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win the division. But also, when
Speaker 1: do you discuss a contract with him? Because people want
Speaker 1: to and I'm like, no, I don't want to do it.
Speaker 1: Now find the Patriots, he said yesterday, I'm fine, it's
Speaker 1: not my focus, you know, Dan for him to make
Speaker 1: the full seven and a half million this year, he
Speaker 1: essentially has to be the regular season MVP and the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP. Those aren't the firm requirements, but as
Speaker 1: a practical matter, that's what he's got to do. And
Speaker 1: if that happens, that's seven and a half million will
Speaker 1: be the best investment in the history of American maybe
Speaker 1: worldwide sport. To get that Super Bowl For the seven
Speaker 1: and a half million dollars, i'd have to pay Cam
Speaker 1: Newton and then you worry about it next year. And
Speaker 1: the beauty of contract is they can use the franchise
Speaker 1: tag on it next year. There wasn't a commitment to
Speaker 1: give that up as part of the deal, and that's
Speaker 1: the wisdom of just letting it simmer, letting it sit,
Speaker 1: wait until he's at the low point of his expectations,
Speaker 1: and he'll take anything he gets. That's when the Patriots
Speaker 1: swooped in and got the deal done. Yeah, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be doing anything, and I would probably look at franchising him.
Speaker 1: But you know, if he's not concerned about it, I'm
Speaker 1: sure Bill Belichick is not concerned about it either. Mike,
Speaker 1: great to talk to you. As always, We appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy. All Right, Dan, have a good day, Bud.
Speaker 1: That's Mike Florio from Pro Football Talk. We'll come back.
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Speaker 1: looking at video last night's game. Jamal Murray has an
Speaker 1: elbow that grazes Lebron James whiskers, not even his chin,
Speaker 1: his whiskers, and Lebron goes down in a heap. See
Speaker 1: that's where if you're an official that you have to say, Lebron,
Speaker 1: you're too big to go down like that. Do we
Speaker 1: blame all of this on Vlade divac is flopping? Did
Speaker 1: Vlade Divak bring flopping to America? Because it felt like
Speaker 1: it came from soccer, But when Vlade came here, it
Speaker 1: felt like Vladi was the first to do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Paul Duke basketball sold charges in the nineties similar to
Speaker 1: when Vlade showed up. It's probably simultaneously. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if Danny Ferry was you know, flopping when he
Speaker 1: was with Duke. So if I do, yeah, batty A
Speaker 1: was a master, but I have to I thought Vlaude
Speaker 1: was the first to do it. Yeah, seton, If you
Speaker 1: google who started flopping in the NBA, guess the first
Speaker 1: name that comes up, At least for me, it did.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Yeah, Well, there's guys who offensively sold fouls
Speaker 1: by flailing theirs is such a nice way of saying
Speaker 1: he's offensively sold. He's a regular guest on the Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick Reggie Miller. No, Reggie didn't bring flopping. He gave overreacting.
Speaker 1: I get Bill Lambier as being one of the people
Speaker 1: who started flopping. Okay, it felt like it was Vlaude
Speaker 1: who who actually fell down, like you know, fever is
Speaker 1: going to be. If you're teaching a master class and flopping,
Speaker 1: i'd have Vlaude in there. Yes, MC loving. There's apparently
Speaker 1: a Sports Illustrated article in the fifties about Frank Ramsey.
Speaker 1: I don't even know who he is a good player
Speaker 1: inventing flopping. Frank the flopper Ramsey from Kentucky number top pick. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: and that's what he said. He said that. Uh, And
Speaker 1: the NBA came out and wrote a strong letter saying
Speaker 1: you have to stop doing that. So Frank Ramsey is
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight or something. Yeah, well that was well
Speaker 1: before Vloody Diva. They didn't They didn't flop like guys
Speaker 1: flop today. Right, Um no, no, no, that far far
Speaker 1: more theatrical now. But it feels like Duke. They they
Speaker 1: pretty much grabbed it and made it theirs. Yeah, Paul
Speaker 1: selling uh fouls to get injury calls and get fouls. Uh,
Speaker 1: Danny ainge. Danny was really good at it with the Celtics.
Speaker 1: When he would get hit on a pick, he would
Speaker 1: scream and cry to the reps. I wouldn't call it flopping,
Speaker 1: but he would sell contact. Well. He once got bit
Speaker 1: on his finger by Tree Rawlins, supposedly, so like you
Speaker 1: can't fake that when somebody bites your fingers himself. And
Speaker 1: then I was so confused by that as a kid,
Speaker 1: Why did Tree Lylens, who's so much bigger I need
Speaker 1: to bite him? Shouldn't Danny Angel bitten Tree Rockling. I
Speaker 1: think it was in the bottom of a scrum and
Speaker 1: then he just bit Angel's finger. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's a lot of things. There's grown men
Speaker 1: who grab each other in the groin when they're in
Speaker 1: the pile, like, explain that, Mike and Chicago. Hey Mike,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? Hi? Dan? Thanks for taking my call. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a long time listener, first time caller. I have a
Speaker 1: couple of comments. The first one is on Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: They have seven players or so that got covid um.
Speaker 1: And there are a small university. That's kind of shocking
Speaker 1: that none of these other universities have hardly anything. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what the integrity is I'm going with these
Speaker 1: biggure universities out there. Yeah, well, I don't know if
Speaker 1: everybody is disclosing all the numbers they're supposed to disclose.
Speaker 1: But what else on your mind? Oh? Man? Marvin hung
Speaker 1: up on him. He had been waiting for an hour
Speaker 1: and a half. Come on, Marv. Chris and Maryland. Hey Chris,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Hey? Dan? What's
Speaker 1: going on? Bud? Hey? I want to ask a sort
Speaker 1: of a broadcast related question. So you know, if you
Speaker 1: I'm thinking football, if you're watching the NBC or the
Speaker 1: CBS or the Floss game, it's really simple in terms
Speaker 1: of it's a game, there's like not a sort of
Speaker 1: super fancy production, and then they've got, you know, two
Speaker 1: great folks on the booth and someone on the sideline.
Speaker 1: But you put on this Monday night game on ESPN
Speaker 1: and it's like a game show. Like they got the
Speaker 1: folks and the coats and these crazy like game show graphics,
Speaker 1: and it just seems to me that like some of
Speaker 1: the audience is going to transfer from one broadcast to
Speaker 1: the next to the next. So I don't I just
Speaker 1: don't understand why ESPN feels like they got to put
Speaker 1: on this this super like show and not to show
Speaker 1: a really good game. And I'm just sort of curious
Speaker 1: about your take on that. Well, they haven't had a
Speaker 1: very good schedule, thank you, Chris, and they have tried
Speaker 1: to reinvent Monday night football. And I kept saying and
Speaker 1: I've said it. I even said it to the people,
Speaker 1: you know in power, John Skipper, you know, I said,
Speaker 1: just do the game, like you're not going to have
Speaker 1: Howard Cosell. There's no Howard Cosell here, because I remember,
Speaker 1: you know, I was told by upper management that they
Speaker 1: were thinking of putting Stephen A. Smith in the booth,
Speaker 1: and I said, no, no, no. He does what he does,
Speaker 1: he does it well. Don't try to make this Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football the seventies. Just if you do it in
Speaker 1: a way like you draw more attention to what you
Speaker 1: lack when you try to make it something that it's not,
Speaker 1: or you're trying to be somebody you're not. You can
Speaker 1: have fun with it, but there's so much that goes
Speaker 1: into the build up to Monday Night Football. It's really
Speaker 1: hard for Monday Night Football to live up to the
Speaker 1: amount of airtime that has spent on that Sunday night.
Speaker 1: That's the best broadcast that you have. Al and Chris.
Speaker 1: They don't have bells and whistles. They just do it.
Speaker 1: They do it professionally, they do it well, and that
Speaker 1: should be pretty much the blueprint when you're doing a game.
Speaker 1: Just do it professionally. Let the game be the star.
Speaker 1: Final hour coming up,